Posted
by
CowboyNeal
on Saturday April 01, 2006 @12:23PM
from the future-of-gaming dept.

Aranth writes "The staff at Ars Technica has gotten its hands on a demo of Duke Nukem Forever, and has written up a review. It seems the game is near ready for release! As the article explains, the reason it has taken so long to develop is because this is the first real Web 3.0 application- it has 'been rewritten as an Ajax application written using the Ruby on Rails framework' and runs in any web browser, although some seem to have difficulties." Sadly, the game looks to be deficient in the area of ponies. :(((( But, it's playable from my hiptop!! :))))

Who says they're trying? "Everyone" knows that April 1st stories on Slashdot are bogus. Or perhaps you really think we'll be seeing this pink theme and stories about cuteoverload from now on? Laugh, it's funny.

You know, I have decided that I will be buying the game when it comes out, the day it comes out! I will be standing in line, along with the other fourty or so 60+ gamers who have been waiting most of their adult lives for this game to come out. It will be fun.

I mean, come on. It's Duke Nukem Forever. The day it actually is released, the world will come to an end.

Nope. A few apocalyptic signs such as the appearance of the Infinium Phantom Console, Windows Vista, and 99.8% of slashdotters getting "laid" still needs to be fufilled before the end is to come. Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on how you look at it), the last sign will take ages before it even comes close to fruition.;)

It feels so good to be included as the.2% who don't get laid. I'm glad you included all 1,800 of us, who won't get laid. (wrongly assuming that there are 900,000 slashdotters, which is greatly infladed by mass accounts etc.) so really being one of 18 slashdotters who will not wind up being laid, not even as a sign of the apocalypse just kinda makes me feel special.

I had a problem installing. The install program seams to have a problem with installing as a "Run as.." admin account. But when I install it after logging in as the admin through the startup screen, no problems.

This needs a lot of work and I think it's going to be a while before it's released.

From TFAThe Good:
* Bright, cheery graphics
* Hilarious hatred of women
* Violence that brings back fond memories of the first Mortal Kombat
* Why grow up? Get some Duke in your life
The Bad:
* Hatred of women maybe not so hilarious after all
* Slim multiplayer pickins'
* A little bit on the short side* Not enough sodomy
The Ugly:* It has sodomy at all

...which is of course exactly what Ars did.
Ars: write it up matter-of-factly and sprinkle it in with the rest of the serious articles: subtle adult humor./. : quote it, spray-paint it pink, write "OMG PONIES" on it and mix it with other obvious jokes: sophomoric junk.

No, you cannot pre-order the game. If you see some online store saying "We are taking pre-orders", they're just trying to get your money (they usually also make up their own supposed "insider release date info", too). There is no release date set, we are not taking pre-orders for the game. End of story.Once we begin taking pre-orders, believe us, you'll know about it.:)

The release date of this game is "When it's done". Anything else, and we mean anything else is someone's speculation. There is no date

This is not news. I have just found out that the music industry has just abolished DRM (Draconian Rights Management) and the DMCA (Draconian Management of Consumer Assets) has also just been been banned.

Apparently it has been decided that the consumer has been screwed enough and that there are better ways to make money from those people. Also the term consumer has been replaced with the term 'those buying suckers' (TM).

in january 1999, i received a gift certificate from 3drealms for $35 dollars because i won one of their camera captioning contests... and, foolishly, I decided that I would wait a lil while until DNF (Duke Nukem Forever, not Did Not Finish) was released and use it on that!

When I first saw the article, I too was dissappointed it was finally coming out, as if a part of me had died. When I read it ran in a browser, I was happy again it was not out yet. Had me fooled until I read the Ajax comment.

The same day this article was posted my friend showed me a website he said it is sorta like NFORCE or something although kept more upto date and more quickly. Guess what showed up in the releases for 4/01 on PC Games